They showed up in a few of the larger operations back in 1986. 1987 and through the early nineties. But as the years went by. there was less and less enforcement at the employer level. fewer and fewer employer sanctions. And I wasnt very happy during the Clinton years as I saw a lack of will to enforce our immigration laws. So we come to the year 2000. the election of our current CommanderinChief. And as I watched the enforcement. and 1 have noticed that within the last couple of years there havent been a half a dozen employers that have been sanctioned for hiring illegals. that is how far we can have come with this rule of law. We sent the message to people that came into the United States illegally that there was a reward for breaking our laws. there was amnesty at the end. there was a path to citizenship. which many of them did receive. 0I 2310 And then the tradeoff was that there would be enforcement. And that would make it harder. that would shut off the jobs magnet. and. of course. then it would take the incentive away for people to come across the border to come into the United States illegally. That was the idea on how we were going to slow down border crossings. especially on our southern border. But when the employer sanctions wound down. slowed down through the Clinton years and came to essentially a stop in the last couple of years. at least from all practical purposes came to a stop. that message echoes down below our southern border. In fact. that message was going below our southern border well before it was clear that there are no employer sanctions.
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